The Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI) University has organized a lecture session on “At the Confluence of History and Politics: Madrasas in Contemporary India” Dr. Arshad Alam today, i.e. on August 11, 2011. The lecture was held at 2.30 pm in the Library Hall of Dr. K.R. Narayanan Centre for Dalit and Minorities Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia.
As per a press release issued by the University, Dr. Arshad Alam is with the Centre for Jawaharlal Nehru Studies and is the author of the recently published Inside a Madrasa: Knowledge, Power and Islamic Identity in India.
Jamia Millia Islamia (JMI) University has grown from a small institution in the pre-independence India to a central university located in New Delhi offering quality education in wide array of disciplines. It is not an affiliating university and no college anywhere is affiliated to it.
The University was originally established at Aligarh in United Provinces, India in the year 1920. It became a Central University by an act of the Indian Parliament in 1988 by a Special Act of the Parliament.
For more details one can visit the University’s official website: http://jmi.ac.in/index.htm
